The Missing

LONDON TERROR - THE AFTERMATH

Reflecting the diversity of London, many of the missing traveled long and far to arrive here. They are Polish, Turkish and American. They come from Mauritius and France. They are almost all young.

Karolina Gluck is a 29-year-old Polish immigrant, who arrived from Chorzow, Poland, almost four years ago. She was determined to master English and get a good job, said Richard Deer, Gluck's boyfriend. She accomplished both, starting as a receptionist at a student residence and working her way up to deputy head of receptionists.

"I've cried a lot," Deer said. "It's so up and down. I keep calling the police. I called them three times, and they said they had nothing new."

Gluck left her North London apartment Thursday morning, calling out, "See you later" as she walked away, dressed in black, her blond, spiky hair bobbing up and down as she headed for the Finsbury Park subway stop. Her destination was Russell Square, near the spot where bombs blew up a subway train and a bus.

As soon as Neetu Jain was evacuated from the Euston station after the bombings on London's Underground, she called her boyfriend and sister to let them know she was safe and would be catching a bus to her office.

That was the last anyone heard from her.

Jain's loved ones fear the 37-year-old North London woman escaped the carnage on the subway only to catch the ill-fated double-decker bus that exploded at Tavistock Square.

"I'm hanging on by a thread," her boyfriend, Gous Ali, said of his receding hopes of finding a bearable explanation for her failure to turn up at work, home or a hospital. Ali, a Muslim, said he and Jain, a Hindu, began dating two years ago, and although they were not yet engaged, "We were moving in that direction."

Ali denounced the perpetrators as traitors to Islam, saying, "I'd like to ask them why anyone would do this, because I am of the same faith."

Rachelle Chung For Yuen came to London from Mauritius five years ago to study and work. Falling in love with a man also from Mauritius was an unexpected bonus. The two were married last year on their native island.

She left her North London apartment for work at 7:30 a.m., heading for the Piccadilly Line, as she always did. Then she vanished.

Mike Matsushita, a 37-year-old Vietnamese American who left a finance job in New York after the Sept. 11 attacks, had just moved from Vietnam to London a month ago to join his British fiancee, Rosie Cowan.

He left their home in Islington at 8:15 a.m. en route to his third day on the job at a West London travel agency. His new commute aboard the Piccadilly Line through King's Cross station would have put him near the scene of the blast aboard a northbound train on that route. Cowan, 27, said she hasn't given up hope of finding Matsushita alive.